Rumour: Dead Space 3 Trades Total Darkness For Blinding Light

If EA is making another Dead Space -- and it's starting to appear that it is -- it may be a radical rethink of the sci-fi horror series. Gone may be the dark corridors of space ships and far-flung planetary settlements, replaced by an icy wasteland inhabited by an all-new strain of monster.

Siliconera reports that it has first details on the fiction of Dead Space 3, claiming that the next entry takes place on the planet Tau Volantis. The planet's "white-out blizzard conditions" may trade the blackness of previous Dead Space games for pure white, a new method for keeping the beasts of Visceral Games' horror franchise well hidden from view.

Those beasts, according to Siliconera's mole, are known as "the hive mind" in Dead Space 3.

EA and Visceral are rumoured to be already hard at work on Dead Space 3, but none of this is official yet.

More rumoured details on the story, potentially spoiler-ish, at Siliconera.

I couldn't disagree more. It looked nice, it was nicely lit, and it sounded nice (apart from the awful dialogue) - but you need more than this to have a well-constructed atmosphere. Its actually the game mechanic that creates the atmosphere, all the above is just there to cement it. Dead Space ended up like playing Time Crisis with your screen brightness down.

Yeah, but you are a tiny man with a ball, rolling up things in rooms and cities stuffed with the weirdest shit imaginable in order to create planets after your dad destroyed them all when he was on a bender.

Oh, no, wait, there was that one Coen brothers movie where you were a tiny man with a ball, rolling up things in rooms and cities stuffed with the weirdest shit imaginable in order to create planets after your dad destroyed them all when he was on a bender. Mea culpa!

I want to know how they'll tell the story without rehashing the story from DS2 in another setting. If you finished DS2 you'll know they kinda leave the door open, but it sounded like it would just be DS2 all over again. I hope I'm proven wrong.

If any one thing about The Last Jedi has been contentious -- actually, no, strike that, everything about The Last Jedi has been contentious, including its approach to space combat (the Holdo Manoeuvre, anyone?). But according to one fan and critic, Rian Johnson's epic actually makes space combat in the Star Wars universe more explicable, not less.